LARRY ROMANOFF—To paraphrase Michael Lewis, “One of the qualities that distinguishes Americans from other people is their naive conviction that every foreigner wishes to be one of them, but even the most zealous Japanese patriot has no illusions that other peoples want to be Japanese”. The...
Because SEALs are a bunch of dipshits? I don't know, but that alone is not enough to outweigh the fact that no one in a position to know on either side is denying what happened, and there is no evidence whatsoever of him still alive anywhere. If he had died of another reason, then his people would be denying the US killed him. If he was still alive in hiding, the US would be hunting him. And it's not like he could make a deal with the US - they would just kill him anyways after they got what they wanted.